<rs type="textType" reg="funerary">Funerary</rs> fragment

Joyce M. Reynolds2007

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Unpublished inscription. This version born digital.

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Description of Monument

Fragment of a white marble panel or sarcophagus front, back surviving but without edges (0.215 × 0.21 × 0.05).

Description of Text

Inscribed on one face.

Description of Letters

0.027; beta with open lower bowl.

Date

Second to third centuries A.D. (lettering).

Edition Ἀπολλώνιοςδιάδοχος αὐτοῦκαὶ οὓς ἂν αὐτὸς βουληθῇτῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ἀντίγραφονἀπετέθη εἰς τὸ χρεοφυλάκιονἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου τοῦ δεῖνος
Apparatus

l. 2, or διάδοχοι.

Text Constituted From

Transcription (Reynolds).

Translation

...] ?Apollonios [... and ... his] heir [and theose whom he wishes.] A copy of the inscribed text [was deposited in] the archive [in the year of the] stephanephorus [... month? ...].

Commentary

l. 1, given the standard character of the class of funerary texts to which this belongs a name such as Apollonios is very likely at this point.

l. 2, the text follows from the parallels, e.g. [[...]]

Locations

Stray find. Unknown. Museum (1977).

History of Recording

Recorded by the NYU expedition in 1963 (63.442).

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Photographs

Face (1977)